Volume 1: Huangquan December Chapter 255: Blood as an Alliance
The invisible threads formed a huge net that kept the unabandoned army outside. But they kept pulling the threads, slowly crumbling down on this sturdy line of defense. A hidden weapon pierced through Huailan, who had lost her center of gravity, and her steps were noticeably slower. The wound was on her flank, and I don't know if it hurt any internal organs, but she had lost her strength.
Before Tang Tianlan swung his knife for the second time, Tang He slashed at his blade. Tilting Lan grasped the handle of the knife with one hand and pressed the back of the knife with the other. Tang He's knife stood diagonally in front of him, landing on a gap in his blade.
"Knives and people, you have to give up one." Tang He said, using a little more force in his hands. At the same time, Dumpling heard the sound of someone behind him falling to the ground. But she was still conscious, and she clutched the grass on the ground, trying to support her tired body, and quietly took out the short knife by the side of her boot with the other hand. Even though she knew that her remaining strength was not even enough for her to insert it into an ordinary, non-resisting piece of meat, she still had to give it her all.
Otherwise, it will be ......
"Click."
It's too late.
The blade split in two, piercing his jaw, neck, collarbone, chest, and abdomen......
Blazing blood splattered on Tang He's face. As the broken knife and the lifeless body fell backwards, the woman holding the short knife leapt to her feet.
Shi Wuqi had already rushed to the fine net, grabbing a large handful of invisible threads with his bare hands, and the threads were all blown in his hands. A large number of corpses swarmed up. When the short knife was only an inch away from Tang He's left ribcage, he lifted the horizontal knife and struck her temple with the back of the knife.
There was a buzzing in his ears, as if overlapping with the tremor of the broken knife. Tang Huailan's eyes were blurry, and countless shadows that could only see the outline surging up. She felt cold, and the movement just now allowed more blood to leave the penetrating wound on her side and waist, but she knew that the blood was as light as a feather compared to Dumping.
The blood of the two melted together and slowly seeped into the land. The blood slowly took away her body temperature, but she didn't feel cold. She tried to reach for the Tilt, to the hilt of the broken knife that he clenched even to death, and covered it with her hand. His man and knife were colder than hers.
"Huailan!!"
The last thing she heard was Mu Wan's hoarse shout.
When Tang Huailan opened his eyes again, it was already dark.
It was quiet, and she wondered if she was deaf. But the moment she got up, the sound of gasping made her clearly realize that her hearing was still good. Her abdomen was painful, and although the hidden weapon that had penetrated her was not poisonous, the wound was still hot and hot. She looked down and touched it, the gauze was clean, and no blood was oozing. Press it gently, and you can still feel a medicine bag, which should be used to stop bleeding.
There was a bowl of cold medicine on the ground, full. Blood-soaked old gauze was piled up on the edge of the mat. There was still a dull pain in her temples, and there was a burning sensation and burning sound at her side. The fire burned very small and was about to be extinguished. Tang Huailan checked his clothes again and found that most of the hidden weapons were missing, but there were still some left.
Her hair was untied, the outermost layer cut in half, and suddenly thinned out over her shoulders. No one combed her hair, so the long needle that had been left in her hair was still there. She reached out and quietly grabbed it.
When Mu Wan walked to this side with firewood, a figure flashed from behind the tree and pressed the cold murder weapon against her neck.
“…… No one will hurt you. Mu Wan quickly calmed down, "If you don't add more firewood, you will freeze to death." ”
"Where's Dumpling?"
“……”
Mu Wan didn't speak, and hugged the firewood in his hand tighter. Tang Huailan suddenly let go, walked to the straw mat tiredly, and collapsed on it again. She looked defenseless, but Mu Wan knew that if she came within a foot of her, the steel needle would penetrate anywhere in her body.
"The good news is that we've got the Night Cry Stone. Other than that, we found in the kid. But...... When we wanted to take her away, she refused to live or die, and even bit Shanhai's hand. ”
"What does that kid do?"
"......," Mu Wan tried to find a milder explanation, but couldn't find it, "Anyway, that child will be killed by him sooner or later." ”
"Does she know?"
"I don't know."
The two men were silent for a moment. Both of them still haven't let down their guard against each other, one psychologically, the other behavioral, but far more than that. After a while, Tang Huailan said lightly:
"Servile."
"You can't say that, it's just a kid. Whoever you have been with for a long time will be trusted. We are just a bunch of strangers, and it's normal for her to be afraid of us. ”
"You let him run." She said, "Jean Tang He." ”
Hearing that name, Mu Wan gritted his teeth: "I can't wait to kill him." He killed my sister, my friend, and my brother. ”
"He also killed my brother."
Mu Wan sighed. It seems that Tang Huailan has realized and accepted this fact. Her waist was still weak, so she could only use her hands to prop herself up, side by side with Mu Wan. Mu Wan sprinkled the firewood on the fire, including a familiar barrier knife. She picked up the scabbard and handed it to her with both hands.
"It's broken. We put both pieces in it. ”
Tang Huailan took the knife and pulled out the scabbard, and it was really only half a section. The first half of the blade is still in the scabbard, heavy. She held the remaining half of the knife in front of her eyes, the flames causing it to glow brightly. Huai Lan just looked at himself on the blade, his face cold and quiet. Scratches, old and new, spread all over the blade, appearing on her face, like a wound she was born with.
Mu Wan didn't look at her. She crouched down and refilled the firewood one by one.
After a while, Tang Huailan inserted the knife back and asked casually, "What about the half-demon?" ”
"Takimiao. He...... OK. Shan Hai controlled the demonic nature in his body. But the censer is still in his body, and we have to find a way to get it out. Cangyu was afraid that we would dissect him alive, and kept an eye on us all the time. Ah, both Yamakai and Muji were badly injured, and they confronted the tengu head-on, and now they are lying on the other side. Oh, it's the fire over there. Your medicine is all Aluanshi. Your injuries are the worst, and our medicine is limited, but your life has been saved. ”
"Thank you."
Mu Wan was stunned for a moment. She thought that Tang Huailan was a cold person, and when they rescued her, they were ready to be scolded for being redundant or biting back. Doing good is not the same thing as whether the other person accepts it or not. I didn't expect her to be so unsparing in gratitude, which caught Mu Wan off guard.
"Uh, uh, it's fine, it should be. It's just that...... Miss Tang, we must not be able to give you the stone that night. Mu Wan's tone was a little regretful, "At least not for the time being." I beg your pardon, we can't help it. ”
"It's fine."
This is the second time Mu Wan has been stunned. She agreed too simply, without the slightest theoretical meaning, which made her very puzzled.
"But, yes...... You won't have a way to give the Tang family an errand. You'll be fined, right? And your partner is also ...... Will they open the net? At the very least, they should realize that this time the enemy is not as easy to deal with as they thought. ”
Mu Wan shook his head slightly.
"I'm not going back."
"Ah, is that so...... That's right, they won't be soft-hearted. So, are you going to the left gate? ”
"Will definitely be found. If we still obey the orders of the hall master Tang Yusheng...... Even if I am our adoptive father, he will think that I don't need to go back. If he fails again and again, and puts his adopted son in it, he will be so angry that he can't wait for me to be buried with him, and he won't admit that he has educated two disciples who have failed so much. ”
"What about the Lord's house......"
"They win anyway. If we die, we can weaken the power of the delusional life that makes them suspicious; If we do not die, but have done meritorious service, we will be transferred to the Lord's house to be sent. If you fail, you will be punished, and there will be endless orders to obey in the future. As for the Night Crying Stone, it doesn't matter at all, it's just to say it to make people think that the Tang family is humiliated, in fact, compared to the benefits of their internal rectification, they will make a steady profit. ”
“……”
Mu Wan knew that the family power was always very chaotic, but he didn't know that the water was so deep that he couldn't see the bottom. She couldn't do more for the status quo. But she knew that if it was her former self, she would probably say something like this:
"Do you want to come with us?"
But she didn't. She's not her old self anymore.
"That, Tang Tianlan's words......" Mu Wan cautiously tested, "Do you want to take him away, or ......"
"Where is he?"
"We put it far away and covered him with a cloth ......"
"I'll bury him in the middle of the night."
"Uh, huh?" Mu Wan's expression was a little strange, in addition to surprise, there were too many emotions that she didn't know how to express, because Tang Huailan's tone was a little light, as if the people who died here were only cats and dogs that had been raised for a few years, "Are you sure?" Isn't it a little rushed, a little rudimentary......"
"No hassle. Jianghu people don't have so many rules. We don't have a home, and we don't have anyone to cherish us. Before we were alive, we said that whoever died would be buried wherever he was. ”
"This, that's it. It's good. ”
Mu Wan watched her cautiously. She didn't show much sadness, and she didn't have much hatred. But Mu Wan firmly believes that these feelings are indeed hidden in her heart. As a distressed person who has also lost a loved one, she is keenly aware of this unique sadness. Like the scent of flowers in the middle of the night. Even if you don't deliberately look for it, you don't have to express it clearly, you can still smell this kind of sorrow that appears from time to time.
Neither the moonlight nor the firelight could penetrate Huailan's eyes. There was a layer of ice in her eyes, and the ice had not melted because of the scorching, but under that gloomy gaze, the parts that were not good at expressing themselves had tended to boil.
She looked at her palm, which seemed to have a pool of fresh blood remaining.
"Whatever you want us to help you with, say it. If Shanhai is in good health, he can still help you do things...... If you don't move him with an injury, you can wait for dawn to let Shi Wuqi figure out a way. ”
"I got my heart, I'll come by myself."
She always spoke so briefly.
"Then, if it's okay, I'll go and rest first." Mu Wan pointed to the bonfire over there, "If you have anything, you can come to us at any time, and you will definitely help if you can." ”
"Okay."
So Mu Wan stood up and patted the soil on his body. Halfway through, she glanced back and found Tang Huailan standing there looking here. Those dark eyes were like sneaking cats in the dark night, like ghosts, as if they would disappear at any time. Mu Wan turned around and continued walking, approaching his own campfire.
When she looked back, she couldn't see it at all.
Tang Huailan was engulfed in the night.
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